Perceived lack of control promotes creativity
The sense of lack of control has been shown to foster illusory pattern perception, superstition, conspiracy and religious beliefs. In two identical experiments we investigated whether the feeling of lacking control (vs. control) can also foster creative thinking, which we operationalized as the abil...
Main Authors: | Claudio Mulatti, Barbara Treccani |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2023-04-01
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Series: | Journal of Creativity |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2713374522000231 |
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